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Re:Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Cal... by brookst on Saturday August 31, 2024 @10:35AM (#41409181)
It’s really the cross-device stuff that keeps me in Apple’s ecosystem. Taking phone calls on my mac, having recent browser tabs from all devices on every device, etc. of course each individual thing can be done on windows / android / linux, but the out-of-the-box, no-config-required experience is really very good. Even if it is frequently and frustratingly not perfect.
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Re:Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Cal... by jmholla on Saturday August 31, 2024 @02:46PM (#41410908)
Android has a lot of those features through KDE Connect now.
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Re:Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Cal... by zelphirkalt on Saturday August 31, 2024 @03:47PM (#41411412)
Calls on computer? Like Signal allows? Tabs from other device? Like Firefox offers?

The thing is, it is very easy in comparison to offer this cross device functionality, if you lock in your users and can simply make lots of assumptions about what software the user will be using. How much of that cross platform stuff works for non-standard browser or non-standard messenger?

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Re:Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Cal... by brookst on Monday September 02, 2024 @10:51AM (#41425815)
Well the phone calls work on every device. I suppose there’s a case that phone numbers are non-standard, but I think it takes motivated reasoning to get there.

And the cross-device stuff is based on cloudkit, so it’s easy for third parties to adopt and get those benefits using apple id rather than additional signins. Of course that has some lock in, which I recognize is so offensive to some people that the upsides aren’t worth it.

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